GLAMcamp NYC was a GLAM meeting/workshop for Wikimedians active in outreach to cultural institutions and modeled on the 2009 Multimedia Usability Project Meeting France. Rather than an open community conference like Wikimania, this was a workshop targeting a small group of community-focused and technology-focused Wikimedians to kickstart the key elements of the glamwiki.org project. Attendees also included key representatives of GLAM (and related) institutions who already had a strong relationship with Wikimedia.

Note: Expenses—including accommodation at the HI Youth Hostel, a reasonable amount towards the cost of travel, and a small per-diem—will be covered for attendees who require it, either by local chapters or the camp organizers.

Dates: 20/21/22 May, 2011 (the weekend following the Berlin Hackathon, Friday through Sunday.)

Venue: New York Public Library: "SIBL" building Friday-Saturday, Mid-Manhattan library on Sunday.

Are any developers or designers interested in a MediaWiki installfest? We'd install MediaWiki locally on our computers, help each other with any LAMP problems, talk about extensions and skins we like, and trade tips. If you ever want to contribute to MediaWiki or MediaWiki extensions, this would be a good first step. - Sumana Harihareswara

Another installfest idea: the WordPress plugin "PhotoCommons", which allows "easy searching, inserting and and maintaining of files from Wikimedia Commons into your blog." We can install it, play with it, file bugs to request fixes or improvements, and talk about porting it to other CMSes (Drupal, Joomla!, etc.). - Sumana